[Pmwiki-users] Add page (was Re: Re: Wiki best practices, good implementations)

[Christian Ridderström]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:28:19AM +0100, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 04:25:42PM -0700, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > > OTOH, this does point to the potential usefulness of providing an 
> > > "Add Page" link in addition to the "Edit Page" link.  Some potential
> > > authors are wary of modifying ("edit") others' work, but might be
> > > okay with having the option of creating a new page of their own.
> > 
> > This does not belong to this thread and I guess it was discussed before,
> > but won't that create a lot of unconnected pages?
> 
> Sorry for the thread fork.  Yes, "Add Page" could create a lot of unconnected
> pages, but for many sites and purposes getting the content in the first
> place is a much bigger challenge than finding people who can/will connect 
> new content into existing pages.  Also, the new pages aren't completely
> orphaned--they still appear in the RecentChanges and AllRecentChanges lists
> so that someone can notice them and link them appropriately.

I (still) think it'd be good for newbies to have an 'Add Page' link up in
the corner.

/Christian

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Christian Ridderstr?m                           http://www.md.kth.se/~chr